Exploring transport carbon futures using population microsimulation and travel diaries: Beijing to 2030

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Volumn 37, Issue , 2015, Pages 108-122

  Ma, Jing ^a   Mitchell, Gordon ^a   Heppenstall, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beijing; Spatial microsimulation; Transport CO2 emission; Travel behaviour

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INVESTMENTS; MASS TRANSPORTATION; PLANNING; SURVEYS; TRANSPORTATION; URBAN GROWTH; VEHICLES;

ACTIVITY DIARY SURVEY; BEIJING; EMISSION ESTIMATION; SPATIAL MICROSIMULATION; SYNTHETIC POPULATIONS; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES; TRANSPORT CO; TRAVEL BEHAVIOUR;

URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; MEGACITY; TRANSPORTATION POLICY; TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN TRANSPORT;

BEIJING [BEIJING (ADS)]; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84949227430     PISSN: 13619209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2015.04.020     Document Type: Article

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